The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-01-27
STATE NEWS.

pafaiyste some 0hys since, - recovering anu 10
now locked for at his post of duty.
-Fefnandins Miryvr. Mr.. Pierre Lorillard,
with bis magnificent steam yacht Neca, came;
Thursday morning proceeded on his winter
cruise TO 81. Augustine and the West India Is
lands. On going to the Office this morning,
Postmaster Ridell found that burglars had been
ct work during the night and the safe robbed of
about $50 In money, check on the postmaster
81 New York for $500, and some half dozen reg,
lstered letters. The entrance was effected
through the transom over the back door. The
ale nae hall inch hole drilled near the lock,
evidently the work of professional burglars.
Jasper Courier. Col. B. B. Blackwell and
family have returned to their home in Live Oak
we are not covetous but wish they would re-
iurn 10 Jasper and stay here. :. The unfortunate
gentleman. We mentioned last week as having
oeen murdered at Branford, proves to have been
q III crawford, late ofNorth Carolina He was
called from his home at midnight by two negro
men. and brutality murdered for the money they
supposed he had. They were traced to Gaines
vile and arrested, when they confessed the
crime The posse having them in charge was
oyerpo"ered by large number of men, on the
ARRIVAL OF the train at O'Brien, and the prisoners
were taken out and hung TO the nearest limb.
Mariana Enquirer Mr. John A. Hays of
CoinmDls, Ala who in company with Col Koo-
Texas some two months since, for the purpose
OF purchasing horses for their stock farm. near
Meals Landing. on the ChattahOochee river, ar
rived here. on Tuesday night last, with ninety
Two mares and colts, and started down with
them TO the farm, yesterday morning Col.
Walker, who is still in Texas, will arrive here in
the course of ten days. with five carloads more
Tor the same farm They propose stocking the
farm with two hundred mares, and give their
attention TO stOck-raisng in the future. They
haEe selected a most excellent plantation for the
purpose, and we have no doubt, success will at
tend them.
-Palaika Daily Neacs' Yesterday morning,
the large force of Italian laborers who arrived
here day or two ago, were put TO work digging
trenches for the pipes OF the Waterworks Com
pany- The laborers seemed to understand their
business, and the way they can throw sand is a
caution 10 lazy men. There are forty or fifty OF
these laborers. and their spades go as regular as
clock work The work OF laying the pipes will
be completed in a very short tine. The large
force OF Italian labOrers digging trenches and
laying pipe for The Water-wOrks Company al
tracted mach universal attention Yesterday. The
coloTed citizens who expected fat jobs on the
works were not al all complimentary In their
remarks concerning the Italians, and we have
heard il whispered that they would openly rebel
against this foreign invasion into their chosen
field of labor.
-kissimmee Lcader. There are about five
new steamers building or aboni to be commenced
for navigation on our lake. This, with the five
ahoai. makes us quite fleet. .. The ST. Cloud
Agricultural and Improvement Company has
received an engine and steam thrasher TO he
used in converting their rice crop in shape for
The market We would like 10 see every bushel
of rice that Capt. Rose has TO spare brought up
and planted by parties in this section. Ii is not
only profitable crop TO raise, but its cultivation
is very beneficial to this section as showing its
prOductiveness, which would be good adveI
Using card 10 our visitors and tourists. :. The
Sanford Journal says that Mr. Lawrence Hughey
who owns some orange grove property at Apop
ka, this county, was digging post holes in his
grove the other day, when he dug up n crude
looking pipe, evidently handmade and wearing
the marks of antiquity. Mr.. Hughey discovered
upon examination, that the pipe was made of
gold, and was worth not less than twenty dol
lars
Monticello Constitution Remember, that
the ninth day of February is "Arbor Day"
All the schools in Jefferson county should make
preparations for the observance of the day, by
planting shade trees around the buildings The
teachers should indulge in, or provide for the de-
livery oil addresses on the occasion, and in fact
make school jubilee We understand NUN
Der Of solid silver spoons and forks were found
IN this town Monday. They were probably
stolen by thief. and thrown away. Mr.. w.
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staunch Democrat, has been appointed by the
Post Office Department, Railway Postal Clerk
and be will run on the route from River june
lion TO Pensacola. He will carefully and eff
GENTLY discharge every duty of the position, and
We congratulate the Department on securing the
service Of so excellent a gentleman.
Quincy Herald: Arbor Day will be gcner-
ally observed in the public schools in this county
The ceremonies al the Quincy Academy will be
"Wednesday nal
OF nimrods killed two hundred and seveniv-fivc
doves-all on the wing. AT least, so they say
DIR. c. A. Gee is planting five acre grove
Of pecans near the Eastern cemetery Let the
good work go on. Hughes 6 Co, have pu,
Wilson's hall in good repair, aud will soon begin
the manufacture of cigars. They have just re
ceiyed 10000 pounds of tobacco. and more is on
the way Hon. p B. Stockton went a short
distance from town last Wednesday and killed
a fine pair of wood cocks These are rare Dir IS
and IL requires a quick shot 10 kill one. The '
are said 10 be the finest bird that can be winged
in Florida The tearing down OF fences in his
county is giving no little trouble. We hear %,
several large plantations that will not be cult
vailed in consequence of their fences being badly
out Of repair. This fence question is of vast i'm
poriance, and should be carefully looked INTO
There are TWO sides 10 all fepces-the inside and
the outside.
Orlando Reporter /. About three hundred
business men for The purpose of purchasing new
instruments for the Orlando Cornet Band. :.
The City Council, some weeks ago, extended
The time for the commencement of work by our
wafer works company on account of the trouble
and delay they have experienced in getting their
iron here. Our friend Bassett has become the
pOsseesor of q power press and Il steam engine
and has enlarged the Kissimmee Leader. We
note his prosperity with feeling OF pride, and
hote The golden shekels will come pouring into
bis Golfers with every turn OF the wheel. -. Our
citizens who purchased our steam fire engine
have agreed 10 return il TO the original owuers
with the understanding that they are to be re-
ieFed from any further claims. This was a sec
Ond-hand machine when il came here, and if our
citizons had kept it il would have cost them
92.400. The same kind of an engine entirely
new, could have been bought in the shops for
81 500. "A Kew West dispatch to the jackson :
vile Morning Nescs states that George Eugene
BYson, formerly of this county, but Of late asso
ciaied xiih the Key West Equator, has been ar
rested upon an indictment recently found in this
county, charging him with criminal libel. The
case grows out of articles published by Mr.. Bry-
son while editor of the Netos Budget of Apopka
against J. J. Combs, Mayor of Apopka
Pensacola Pensacotian: Yesterday as one
Frank Dolphin, q colored youth, was out in the
swamp back Of Dr. r. w. Hargs' looking after
his fIaps, he discovered a white man lying on
the ground dead He Immediately gave the
alarm. and Coroner Esmonde was brought TO the
scene, and found that the man had bullet hole
IN BIZ head lost above the right temple, and
around the wound the head was burnt with pow
der. Near the man was q five chambercd self
cooking 80 calibre revolver with two chambers;
the revolver was q new one In the mans
pockets were found box of cartridges, a pocket
book with some small change in it, and much